Wednesday morning NBA 2K10 Draft Combine hit the 360 and though I didn’t see anyone else here looking to have purchased it to give us some feedback on how it is, I went to my trusty site that I go to everyday, Pasta Padre.  What he feels is good about the game:

Probably most impressive is the player creation options. Specifically I like the ability to choose from a number of different play styles for each position. I went with Small Forward with a play style of “Slashing”. Being able to look at and assign signature shots is great and it is nice to see there is limited selection for different types of moves and abilities being assigned. Many of them only offer basic packages until your player has improved to a certain rating. What can make a basketball game career mode unique more than some other sports is the numerous ways to personalize the player.

And of course with every good thing there seems to always be a bad:

Most frustrating is the teammate rating. You start each game at a C rating and move up and down based on various happenings throughout. From what I’ve seen PGs and big men have a huge advantage as blocks and assists are the most consistent way to get a boost. Steals are also, but there is more risk involved there since it is possible you’ll commit a foul. Do that and you get dinged on the rating as a poor teammate. I could understand if you’re running around trying to steal and leaving your assignment behind, but every player commits fouls in real life and it doesn’t make them a bad teammate.

He also has a 6:00 minute video on his site too. You can check that out and his full impressions here.

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One of our many NCAA 10 leagues that we offer has completed their first season.  Joystick Jocks our PS3 affiliate league has just received their first National Champion of their on going online dynasty.  Seth Young, owner of the Miami Hurricanes ran through the competition and completed his undefeated season while taking down the Florida Gators in the BCS National Title game.

Congratulations goes out to Seth and his Miami Hurricanes.

Joystick Jocks are now in the offseason stages and are looking quick to jump into their second season.

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Konsole Kings has a five minute walkthrough video of the Draft Combine on NBA 2K10.  Pretty good video they put up on their site.  Shows their player in a scrimmage game and him getting a grade afterwards.

Check the video out here.

Draft Combine drops today on the 360 and September 3rd for the PS3!

For those that have a 360 and have purchased this please leave comments for us to see.

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IGN has released the Official Trailer for the Draft Combine that is a purchase only for XBOX 360 and PS3.  Looking at the video I am starting to like what i am seeing from this.  NBA 2K has been on the top of the Basketball titles for it’s gameplay and with this addition and what LIVE is doing this year this could be the best year for both of these titles as this will be the first 2K will have to worry about LIVE.

Here is the video below.  What do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

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EA sports has released the details of the second patch that has not yet been determined when the release of it will be.  This patch addresses alot of areas as the first did not do much to anything accept dealing with the sliders and also adding the ability to turn off DLC cheats in an OD.  Below is the list of the updates:

Thoughts? Leave them in the comments.

• Player Lock in Online Games will now move the camera behind the locked player (like Offline games)

• Greatly increased the quality of uploaded videos

• Fixed an issue with penalties on a change of possession in Overtime

• Fixed an issue where you would sometimes lose control of your player going offsides in no huddle situations

• Tuned holding chances on Field Goals and Extra Points

• Fixed a couple pass coverage issues with Wild Cat plays

• Tuned the chuck success chances to favor more neutral results. Wins and Losses are extreme and should occur less for both the offense and defense

• AI Tackle slider is now more effective

• Lead Blocking tweaks to fix some cases of pulling lineman ignoring defenders

• Fixed a few rare cases that would cause players in pursuit to run away from the ball carrier

• Tuned the CPU ball carrier to make some smarter choices

• Fixed a bug where the CPU would high step at inappropriate times

• Tuned player switching logic to give a more appropriate player

• Fixed an issue with Punts being spotted incorrectly when the punt went out of bounce

• Corrected an issue where pressing in man coverage would cause the CPU to throw the ball too early

• If the receiver caught a pass during a slip, rarely would he be ruled down after the catch (even if he got up before making the catch). This has been fixed.

• Fixed a bug where sometimes the clock would continue to run after hold on an extra point

• Forward pitches are now correctly tracked as passing and receiving yards for the players involved

• Receivers will now try and release to the appropriate side of the defender based on their route

• Fixed some problems that were causing defensive players to not always get back in time during hurry up plays

• Reduced the effect of the Run Block Slider on special teams plays

• Tuned how effective the slant route for running backs out of the backfield was

• Tuned how far away diving sacks will start from

• Fixed an online grieve with pausing the game

• Fixed a bug where using a TeamBuilder team as the away team would cause the team colors to be incorrect

• Fixed an issue where some Dynasty teams were only able to offer 15 scholarships. You will not have to restart your dynasty for this to take effect, the fix is for offline and online dynasties.

• Certain TeamBuilder teams were incorrectly being blocked by the profanity filter and showing up as XXXX, this has been corrected

• Fixed and issue where Punt was not the default selection on 4th down and punting distance

• Off-centered single digit jersey numbers are now centered correctly

• Fixed a crash in Custom Stadium Sounds when the list of files was too long

• TeamBuilder teams with & in the name can now be searched properly

• Fixed an issue where the “Online Dynasty Servers are Down” pop-up was showing up incorrectly

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NBA 2K10: Draft Combine will be hitting this week, Wednesday August 26th on the 360 marketplace and on September 3 in the Playstation Store.  Now as many may or may not know this is a purchase only,  $5.00 / 400 MS Points.  It is a jump start to the ‘My Player’ career mode that 2K10 is rolling out.  Here you will be able to create your player.  The created player is really indepth.  You can make your player the way ‘you’ want him, from tatoos to ankle socks, finger guards, knee straps, wrist bands, rubber bands and headbands, the creation is inevitable.

After you create your player you take him into the combine.  Here you will be running through drills and scrimmages to improve your attributes which will of course help you in the draft. 

Pastapadre.com stated that this could still be a free demo release so you can of course check it out before putting money/points down on it.

“The best thing out of this is just like every downloadable game it is required to offer a free trial. So there will at least be the chance to sample it in abbreviated form though any progress made with a player would not be saved or transferable to NBA 2K10″.

I have been a fan of the NBA 2K series and this is something that I am really interested in.  Here are a couple of screens I found over at IGN.com.

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